Meany Cook bios

Thanks to the dedication of a group of volunteers, Meany is humbly honored to have our very own exceptional cooking staff, led by Head Chef Ray Hecox. The motto of the chefs is"

    "If you leave Meany hungry.......Well, it is your fault"
Using our fully functional, extremely large kitchen, each of our meals is prepared from scratch. All out cooks strive to provide for anyone. Food intolerances/allegies or special dietary requirements are a norm for them. This page is in deep appreciation to all of them for their hard work.





Ray Hecox Ray has a passion for cooking. He prevously ran a catering service so has extensive experience in cooking for large groups. He has three goals when he cooks. 1) every one has enough to eat, 2) all diets are accounted for and 3) that the meals are tasty. These three goals are met every weekend. He is also very considerate and kind in allowing anyone to help in the kitchen (even children). Everyone that does kitchen duty comes away happy.












Jo Evans (Art Freeman's lovely and better half) loves volunteering in the kitchen because of the "Meany family" attitudes. She chose to do kitchen duty because "it threw her into the thick of things and help her to experience a re-awaking and recharging of herself simply by her interactions with the people at Meany". See you said Meany wasn't fun :-)
















John prior to a weekend of
cooking at Meany

Chef John Maltman

Cooking influences - Anthony Bourdain, Jean George Vonrichten, Rob Feenie, Alton Brown, David Rosengarten. Tom Douglas

Skiing influences - Billy Kidd, Tyler Palmer, James Maltman, The Mahres, Alberto Tomba, All the Meany Gang.


John after a weekend of
cooking at Meany
What's on my I-Pod - You don't want to know, it's frightening - Burt Bacharach, Everything but the Girl, Frank Sinatra, Jonas Brothers, U2, Rick Astley

Favorite Meany Run - South in 6 inches of new

Biggest cooking uh-oh - Crowning fresh baked muffins with salt instead of sugar in front of guests on a week long cruise (nicknamed Chef Sodium thereafter).

Best thing about Meany - All smiles, all the time !


Double Black Diamond winners - webmaster note: The words above are all john's





Teresa Miles: - South Seattle Community College Culinary Alumni
Teresa (also one of the regular Meany Chefs) spent 2 years in school preparing for a career change from travel to food service. She chose South Seattle CC since it had won several awards in ACF competition and is highly recognized in the community for it's hands on program.

In the process of completing this degree, she also added additional nutrition and fitness classes to get a better understanding of how food works in the body. After graduating, she realized that sales was still in her blood, so a career goal was to sell products in the field. Gourmet Display has been a great opportunity to do just that. The titles we work with are Executive Chefs, Catering Managers and Food & Beverage Directors